Reflections on October 7th II
A reader of my last post responded to it with the words:
“I think the IDF and Mossad either planned the false-flag, or knew about and let it happen, much like FDR and Pearl Harbor. To quote the Khazarian Mafioso, Rahm Emanuel, ‘You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.’ Translation: ‘If you want to do things that you normally could not do, make a crisis happen.’”
It is impossible to disagree with the main point, especially in light of the words of Ofer Cassif[1], that Netanyahu (generously) finances Hamas[2]. This comes on top of a report by the Wall Street Journal about how the West and Israel “inadvertently” (read intentionally) funded Hamas in October and a report by Sami Peretz about Israeli funding of Hamas in December[3].
Anybody who has been following the issue of Occupied Palestine for as long as I have (I even published a short story about the massacre of Sabra & Shatila in 1982!) will know that the Western media made no secret of how Hamas was fostered by Israel as a counterweight to the PLO. In the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s: Hamas, for the Israelis at least, was a “good thing”. I even remember how, as late as 2006, the Hamas takeover of Gaza was portrayed in the western press in glowing colors (there was not a little glee about how PLO officials were thrown from high buildings).
This is, interestingly enough, nothing new.
Robert Dreyfuss quotes Robert Baer on the American attitude toward the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood):
“The White House looked on the Brothers as a silent ally, a secret weapon against (what else?) communism. This covert action started in the 1950s with the Dulles brothers—Allen at the CIA and John Foster at the State Department—when they approved Saudi Arabia’s funding of Egypt’s Brothers against Nasser. As far as Washington was concerned, Nasser was a communist. He’d nationalized Egypt's big-business industries, including the Suez Canal. The logic of the cold war led to a clear conclusion: If Allah agreed to fight on our side, fine. If Allah decided political assassination was permissible, that was fine, too, as long as no one talked about it in polite company. Like any other truly effective covert action, this one was strictly off the books. There was no CIA finding, no memorandum notification to Congress. Not a penny came out of the Treasury to fund it. In other words, no record. All the White House had to do was give a wink and a nod to countries harboring the Muslim Brothers, like Saudi Arabia and Jordan.”[4]
One can comfortably trace the Western backing of fundamentalist Islam (which is essentially a Western creation) much further back than the 1950s, and one doesn’t need to be either Sherlock Holmes nor Einstein to understand why it has been in Western interests to support it: fundamentalist Islam has ALWAYS been the foil of Arab nationalism.
What is interesting is how open the Western support of the financing of fundamentalism has always been. In the case of Hamas, it has been Qatar rather than Saudi Arabia, which finances Hamas on behalf of the West and Israel. Even CNN reports this fact:
“Since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the Gulf state of Qatar has come under fire by Israeli officials, American politicians and media outlets for sending hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Gaza, which is governed by the Palestinian militant group.
But all that happened with Israel’s blessing.
In a series of interviews with key Israeli players conducted in collaboration with Israeli investigative journalism organization Shomrim, CNN was told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued the cash flow to Hamas, despite concerns raised from within his own government.
Qatar has vowed not to stop those payments. Qatari minister of state for foreign affairs Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi told CNN’s Becky Anderson on Monday that his government will continue to make payments to Gaza to support the enclave, as it has been doing for years.
‘We’re not going to change our mandate. Our mandate is our continuous help and support for our brothers and sisters of Palestine. We will continue to do it systematically as we did it before,’ Al-Khulaifi said.
Israeli sources responded by pointing out that successive governments had facilitated the transfer of money to Gaza for humanitarian reasons and that Netanyahu had acted decisively against Hamas after the October 7 attacks.
In 2018, Qatar began making monthly payments to the Gaza Strip. Some $15 million were sent into Gaza in cash-filled suitcases – delivered by the Qataris through Israeli territory after months of negotiation with Israel.
The payments started after the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Palestinian government in the Israeli occupied West Bank that is a rival of Hamas, decided to cut salaries of government employees in Gaza in 2017, an Israeli government source with knowledge of the matter told CNN at the time.
The PA opposed the Qatari funding at the time, which Hamas said was meant for the payment of public salaries as well as medical purposes.
Israel approved the deal in a security cabinet meeting in August 2018, when Netanyahu was serving his previous tenure as premier.
Even then, Netanyahu was criticized by his coalition partners for the deal and for being too soft on Hamas.
The prime minister defended the initiative at the time, saying the deal was made ‘in coordination with security experts to return calm to (Israeli) villages of the south, but also to prevent a humanitarian disaster (in Gaza).’
Ahmad Majdalani, an Executive Committee member at the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank, accused the United States of orchestrating the payment.
The US was aware of the Qatari payments to Hamas, a former senior State Department official involved in the region told CNN on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Qatar was prepared to provide funds to the Gaza Strip through Hamas as early as the 2014 Israel-Hamas war to alleviate the humanitarian crisis there, the official said, and the US at the time left it up to the Israelis to decide whether they would permit this.
‘We deferred completely to the Israelis as to whether this was something they wanted to do or not,’ the official said.
Israeli and international media have reported that Netanyahu’s plan to continue allowing aid to reach Gaza through Qatar was in the hope that it might make Hamas an effective counterweight to the PA and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.
PA officials said at the time the cash transfers encouraged division between Palestinian factions.
Major General Amos Gilad, a former senior Israeli Defense Ministry official, told CNN the plan was backed by the prime minister, but not by the Israeli intelligence community. There was also some belief that it would ‘weaken Palestinian sovereignty,’ he said. There was also an illusion, he added, that ‘if you fed them (Hamas) with money, they would be tamed.’”
Where CNN errs is in tracing the start of the funding to 2018. When I was writing a book on Gaza in 2015 I found out that Qatar was funneling money to Hamas through an Israeli bank: Bank Leumi. This reminded me of how the IRA had an account at the City of London and how most terrorist groups have a Gladio[5] background (see the work of Daniele Ganser). In fact, Hamas is simply another example of “standard operating procedure”.
There is another aspect that also deserves mention.
Mossad’s Meir Dagan is quoted in “Rise and Kill First” as saying:
“‘Assassinations have an effect on morale, as well as a practical effect. I don’t think there were many who could have replaced Napoleon, or a president like Roosevelt or a prime minister like Churchill. The personal aspect certainly plays a role. It’s true that anyone can be replaced, but there’s a difference between a replacement with guts and some lifeless character.’
Furthermore, the use of assassination, in Dagan’s view, ‘is a lot more moral’ than waging all-out war. Neutralizing a few major figures is enough to make the latter option unnecessary and save the lives of untold numbers of soldiers and civilians on both sides.’”[6]
This has been Zionist standard operating procedure for over a century. Why has it changed now? Why haven’t the leaders of Hamas been assassinated (only a Hamas official who helped negotiate the release of the hostages and a few other, relatively minor figures, have been murdered)? Could it be because they were paid to carry out October 7th?
[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/11/who-is-israeli-mp-ofer-cassif-why-is-he-backing-south-africa-at-the-icj
[3] https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-20/ty-article-opinion/.premium/how-netanyahu-enabled-october-7-with-suitcases-of-cash/0000018c-8397-d219-a5bf-b7ff40660000
[4] p.102 Devil’s Game, Robert Dreyfuss
[6] pp.xix-xx Rise and Kill First, Ronen Bergman
The thing is, if Obama is a communist infiltraitor (sic), and a supporter, or member of the Muslim Brotherhood, how does the Islam versus Communism agenda cohere? I see it as part of a larger [KM] conspiracy to constantly cause strife by creating opposing forces they can feed off: Islam v Communism, Christianity v Communism, Christianity v Islam, Judaism v Christianity, Men v Women, Young v Old (especially after 1968), Pop culture v High culture, etc.
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